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Thanks for the comments so far!
Lucassimone3, squarish columns wouldn't be too hard, and I might give it a go once I have a little more free time. Been working a lot of O/T lately and the only time I have for Simming is on the weekends.
I created these columns solely for a house of mine that is currently sitting in the moderation queue for upload. I required a very basic round column in 1.00x, 1.25x, and 1.50x heights and tried for several days using different possible solutions before coming to the conclusion that I would have to create them myself. So first and foremost, they are round because of their use in
one house that hasn't even been successfully uploaded yet (knock on wood). But while I was creating them, I decided it wouldn't be that much more work to create a full set from 0.25x to 2.00x.
Marcella17, let me try and explain better. If you are familiar with the use of the
ConstrainFloorElevation cheat to create "short" walls on top of standard-height ones -- to effectively create walls that are 1.25x, 1.50x, and even 1.75x tall -- these "columns" allow you to fill that gap between floor and ceiling in the same quarter wall-height steps. For example, quarter wall-height steps are used by people that build
split-level stairs, because each "four step" staircase is exactly 0.25x high. Other scenarios would include
split level homes or
sunken rooms, where the wall height isn't the standard 1.00x. Another example would be a large second story deck on a house built on a foundation (which in its own is 0.25x the height of a standard wall). Normally you would have to use small 1x1 foundations and place standard Build-mode columns on top of them to properly support the deck. Or, you could use my 1.25x column for a cleaner look and forget about the 1x1 foundations.
Because these aren't standard Build-mode columns, they don't create the grid above them when placed in-game (that you could normally place floor tiles on). Instead, you have to figure out a way to create the second floor first (at whatever height you want), and then place the appropriate height columns afterward. The only place where these won't work well would be in
Austin0331's deck scenario if the deck was over natural uneven terrain. If you were to try and place a 1.25x tall column somewhere where the distance between the terrain and the deck above was less than that distance, the top of the column will poke through the deck. These columns are
not a substitute for the old Sims 2 Deck Tool.